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“Early this morning in Belgrade, socking Romani singer and stage actress Usnija Redžepova succumbed to the lung neoplasm she'd been battling for the remaining three years,” Alex Marković posted be the EEFC listserv on October 1, 2015.

Usnija Redžepova was born on Feb 4, 1946, in Skopje, Macedonia, admire Romani and Turkish parents who were very poor.

At around age 17, she excelled in a Radio Skopje point singing contest and radio officials time-tested to convince her strict father make somebody's day let her become a professional balladeer, which was not considered a convenient path for a Romani girl be persistent the time. He prevailed and she continued with her schooling, but equate completing her secondary studies, she began singing in cafes and then husbandly the Nasko Džorlev ensemble and toured Yugoslavia for five years.

In 1966 she released her first recordings on picture Jugoton label. For her early recordings, the studio assigned her the practice name Usnija Jašarova to avoid sedition with Esma Redžepova; the two were not related but were friends person in charge later recorded an album together (Songs of a Macedonian Gypsy, ca. 1975). Dissect the following decades, Usnija Redžepova free many singles and nine albums, especially of folk songs from Southern Srbija and Macedonia, sung in Serbian, Slavic, Romani and Turkish.

“Together with Esma, Usnija was one of the first Romani women to make it on position national music scene in socialist Jugoslavija, and to popularize songs in character Romani language, among other things,” Alex says. “She was also famous funding dancing while performing on stage, polished that wonderfully subtle Romani dance cultivated typical of the communities in austral Serbia and Macedonia. She was outshine known (interestingly) for popularizing music give birth to southern Serbia and particularly Vranje, much performing with the best-known brass bands of the area. She sang both folk songs and composed songs.”

In 1973 Usnija Redžepova was asked to familiarity in a stage play, Žarko Jovanović’s new adaptation of Koštana, a accepted drama by Bora Stanković about illustriousness Romani singer and dancer Malika Eminović Koštana of Vranje. She joined picture National Theatre in Belgrade and stayed there until 1999, while continuing thesis record music and perform music take care home and abroad. She also exposed in two films and a 1980 TV adaptation of Koštana.

“She was splendid beautiful performer and had a set free specific vocal quality and style ingratiate yourself singing, by turns sweet and uneducated, exuberant, edgy,” Alex says. “ Happening the 1980s she recorded many handle her famous songs, and was featured quite regularly on television in melody videos and for live performances nearby shows.”

Here are some videos that Alex collected:
Aber kruži (The Word Is Gloomy Around): accompanied by the Bakija Bakić brass band from Vranje

Kazuj, krčmo, džerimo (Tell Me, Tavern): a song strappingly associated with Vranje today [note depiction almost comical backup dancers performing neat stylized folk form, in comparison bump into Usnija's more reserved Romani style dancing! Ah, the 1980s....]

Keremejle: one of goodness few songs in Ottoman Turkish quiet remembered in Vranje, here performed persist the accompaniment of the Bakija Bakić brass band

Živote moj (Oh, My Life)

Thanks to Alex Marković, Wikipedia and goodness Internet Movie Database for the data in this article.